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Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]
U.S. Senator, Maine

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Maine [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Feb 21, 1947 / 62 years old

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 08-05-09 00 0:34:50 to 0:39:45 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Olympia Snowe:

When	Role	Representing
1995-2012	U.S. Senator	Maine	(Most Recent Term Began in 2007) (was preceeded by George Mitchell)
1979-1994	U.S. Representative	Maine’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by William Cohen)

Sponsorship Analysis

Snowe is a moderate Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Snowe is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Snowe sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Snowe’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Snowe, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Snowe and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Snowe.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Snowe's bills without Snowe returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Olympia Snowe missed 34 (0%) of 7751 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Snowe in 2007-2008 was $29,400 from employees of O'Hara Corp. Olympia Snowe’s net worth was between $15,018,074 and $51,599,001 in 2007, according to Snowe’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Snowe.

Committee Membership

Olympia Snowe sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

Member, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance

Member, Subcommittee on Science and Space

Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine

Member, Senate Committee on Finance

Member, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness

Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Olympia Snowe has sponsored 548 bills since Apr 24, 1991 of which 499 haven't made it out of committee and 9 were successfully enacted. Snowe has co-sponsored 1708 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Snowe and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Snowe’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S.Res. 260: A resolution designating September 16, 2009, as "The American Legion Day".
	S.Res. 346: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that, at the 21st Regular Meeting of the International Commission on the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the United States should seek to ensure management of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery adheres to the scientific advice provided by the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics and has a high probability of achieving the established rebuilding target, pursue strengthened protections for spawning bluefin populations in the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate the recovery of the Atlantic bluefin tuna, pursue imposition of more stringent measures to ensure compliance by all Members with the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas' conservation and management recommendations for Atlantic bluefin tuna and other species, and ensure that United States' quotas of tuna and swordfish are not reallocated to other nations, and for other purposes.
	S. 2743: Cold War Service Medal Act of 2009
	S. 2777: A bill to repeal the American Recovery Capital loan program of the Small Business Administration.
	S. 983: Rural Aviation Improvement Act

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